#nation

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#create #diminishing #earth #economy #energy

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#film #formulaic #get #i #i think

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#britain #cent #country #developed #developed country

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#beings #civilized #civilized nations #earth #great

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#complete #else #fantasy #fascination #go

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ↗

— Simone Weil

#fiction #life #make #make up #more

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. ↗

— Simone Weil

#conflict #international #likely #more #petroleum

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. ↗

— Simone Weil

#except #including #make #nation #option

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #compulsions #conscious #crowd #dynamic